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I love people. I love my friends, my foes, the people that ignore me, the people that tolerate me, the people I don’t know, and the people I’ll always know. My family, extended and immediate, and my strangers, around the corner or around the world. People are what I live for, and what I’m sure to die trying to appease, impress, offend, inspire, but above all else entertain and instruct. Shouts out to Taylor Cohan, Roger Hayn, Aaron Light, Isaac Reynaldo, and Rob Scharlach, Negashi Armada, Robbie Barnett, Ivy Wolk, my everydays, my homies. Shouts out to Pedro Bello, Santangelo, Francis, and the whole AdWorld team as well as Dylan and Lena Redford for the inspiration and the fun. Blu Hunt, Sally Sum, Video Expert, Alec Moeller, Ally Davis, Jackie Kramer, Brooks Skerritt, Bianca my Yung_Nihilist. Dasha (the true one), Colter Fellows, Harrison Fishman, Ben Gordon, Oliver Shahery my New York warriors. Grant, Jon, thank you for the best summer job I’ve ever had. Xander for the best spring break job I’ve ever had. Kennedy, Lily, Isabelle, Viviana, Gibson, David. Tommy, Leigh, Andy, Alex: my boys on the hustle, the movement. Thank you to my exes and my future exes for teaching me, for listening to me, for giving and for taking. Thank you to everyone who’s let me screen their film, and everyone that’s told me never to screen a film again. That’s not everyone I forgot a lot of people. Ben Friedlander. One of few I’ve seen as stressed about a film screening as me. Kate, Casey, Keenan, Edward. My film family. This sounds like a suicide note but it’s an expression of a gratitude I feel every day. I love you.
Dec 26, 2022
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👬I recommend Oliver Levitt, Gabe Wells, AJ Marcus, Ezra Miller, and Caleb Miller. Some of the best people I know. Our fatal flaw? Our original sin? We like each other too much. Truly, madly, deeply. We love hanging out, foreal. They’re very much a centering force in my life and I would be lost without them.
Aug 17, 2021
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😃And the fact that everything is connected to it. Brutus VIII. Cooper B Handy. That guy Joe I met in Austin last month. My friends boss. Chris who used to do I.T. at my school. I guess me because I’m on this app? Also you. Also everything ever. And Ayo Edebiri. Does this count as my connection to Ayo Edebiri via the 7 person rule? I was thinking about this in the shower the other day. I love her.
Apr 27, 2025
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Recently I’ve been taking my creative career a bit more seriously than I have been, and honestly... it’s been going WAY better than I thought it would??? One of those reasons being how good the response has been to the content that I've been making, which honestly means the world to me. The other reason has to be my amazing partner in crime I’ve been working with during this whole adventure.
I'm not gonna lie, I had A LOT of worries with the idea of merging something like business especially in a creative field with a friendship with someone who I consider one of my fav people ever. What if we hate each other? What if arguments drive us apart? What if that lil nigga slime me??? But it’s honestly been SUCH a lovely experience. It weirdly feels extremely natural and familiar. I feel like I never have to worry if we’re on the same page because we just know each other so well it’s honestly funny.
There will be times where I overthink myself into believing that she’s not on the same wavelength for an idea, and she never hesitates to clock the FUCK out my tea and remind me that I’m bein a lame ahh nigga and it’s so comforting.
Success has always been such a drowning and cluttering thought to me and would often regress me into not doing anything and stunting my own growth. But there’s just something so special about the idea that someone wants a goal just as much as you do to the point where they believe in you enough to do the whole journey with you.
Obviously, she’s much more than just a manager or wtv she’s my best friend and always and forever will be. I’ll just always and forever be grateful for how much she believes in me. It’s awesome. I hope one day I’ll be the person you see so clearly in me, but I’ll take it one day at a time!
So pleaseee please please do that stupid random idea that you and your friend thought about on a random Tuesday. It may seem scary and terrifying, but I think that’s what’s beautiful abt it. YOU GOT THIS TWINS!!!
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👷I need to work. I need to keep my mind busy with goals. Big ones, small ones, ambitions and routines, I need it all. As a kid I was always labeled uh, like smart. Or something like that. Gifted. I was a gifted child hahahahaha. I was praised for my verbose conversations, and knowledge of trivial shit from pop culture and presidential history. I didn’t have a lot of solid friends growing up, and I spent a lot of my time with adults. So, I was always pampered with “You’re gonna be ____ one day!” And that shit. I never built a work ethic. I guess it’s my fault, but I don’t know if it was internal or external. As an adult now, I feel like I have to make up for that lost time. I have to constantly work on my personal affairs, and the events I do. Or else I’ll fall into that childhood-teenage bad habit of not doing anything.
Dec 26, 2022
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📝I write a lot of shit down. I’m an impulsive person, so when I get an idea for something I tend to try to record it before it fades away. It’s how I got into throwing these events actually. The first screening I did in LA came from a note I wrote to myself at my old job on the back of a post-it. It was a few loosely scribbld words, but I remembered how strongly the thought behind it was, and decided to act on it. I’m a big ideas guy, and I try to reel myself in a lot of the time. Writing down the things I want to do helps me greatly.
Dec 26, 2022
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🎥It’s a given, but I like the rest of the team, love movies. The first one I saw was Scooby Doo, according to my parents. I cried when it got loud so they took me out of the theater. I love my parents. Showing movies to them is a deep pleasure of mine. Just like cooking for them, or getting them that thing they wanted for their birthday. People are surprised when I say this, but I show everything I screen to my family beforehand. They’re the Wizard behind the curtain of my programming. I talk with them about what should go first, and discuss the common themes the shorts I pick share. It makes me a better curator and programmer having my mom, dad, and sister in the room for help.
Dec 26, 2022